{"id":125,"date":"2023-10-11T20:57:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T20:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gofermentor.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/sky-acres-winerys-black-river-red-wine-won-best-of-class-in-the-2019-san-francisco-chronicle-wine-competition\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T20:57:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T20:57:56","slug":"sky-acres-winerys-black-river-red-wine-won-best-of-class-in-the-2019-san-francisco-chronicle-wine-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gofermentor.com\/sky-acres-winerys-black-river-red-wine-won-best-of-class-in-the-2019-san-francisco-chronicle-wine-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Acres Winery\u2019s Black River Red wine won Best of Class in the 2019 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition."},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"module-position-SidgVDbOQwU\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket story-headline-module story-story-headline-module\">\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline speakable-headline\">Three NJ wineries win big at San Francisco wine competition<\/h1>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"module-position-SidgVDb6_oQ\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket priority-asset-module story-priority-asset-module\"><\/section>\n<section id=\"module-position-SidgVDbuHT4\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket story-byline-module story-story-byline-module\">\n<div class=\"asset-metabar\"><span class=\"asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item\">Robin Shreeves, Special to the Cherry Hill Courier-Post<\/span><span class=\"asset-metabar-time asset-metabar-item nobyline\">Published 12:10 p.m. ET Feb. 1, 2019 |\u00a0<span class=\"asset-metabar-time-updated\">Updated 9:56 a.m. ET Feb. 5, 2019<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"asset-double-wide double-wide p402_premium\" role=\"main\">\n<div id=\"module-position-SidgVOHyoZY\" class=\"story-asset image-asset\">\n<aside class=\"single-photo float\">Sky Acres Winery\u2019s Black River Red wine won Best in Class in the Best in Class award in the Red Blend: Red Native\/Hybrid category in the 2019 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. <span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Courtesy Sky Acres Winery)<\/span><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">\u201cIndeed, hybrid grapes can produce wines that evoke suggestions of dark fruits, provocative spice and simulating acidity, as shown by this Black River Red.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">That quote about Sky Acres Winery\u2019s Black River Red wine came from Mike Dunn, a judge in the recent 2019 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, a contest that invites wineries from all over North America to enter their wines. Judges taste the wines blind. They don\u2019t know who made the wine or where it was produced. So a Chardonnay from New Jersey can be tasted alongside a Chardonnay from California, and all the judges know is that the wine is a Chardonnay \u2014\u00a0and that it falls within a certain price range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Sky Acres, which is\u00a0in Far Hills, took home a Best in Class award in the Red Blend: Red Native\/Hybrid category. The winning 2017 Black River Red, named after the Black River Road that owners Meera and Vijay Singh live on, is produced from estate-grown marechal foch, a hybrid French red wine grape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s a really nice, well-balanced wine,\u201d says Meera Singh. \u201cI find anyone who tries it loves it. It\u2019s a good wine. End of story.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"teads-inread sm-screen\">\n<div id=\"teads0\" class=\"teads-player\"><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Taking home the Best in Class award for this wine \u2013 meaning it was the best wine of all the wines submitted in that category \u2013 is a big deal for the Singhs. Marechal foch is a difficult grape to work with because it\u2019s very acidic. To be able to produce an award-winning wine from it is impressive. What adds to that impressiveness is the method Sky Acres uses to make wine.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text\">They use 300-gallon plastic bags for fermentation and aging instead of oak barrels or steel tanks. This GOfermenter system, which they developed in 2014, is unconventional. While it doesn\u2019t have the romantic appeal of a cellar full of oak barrels, it\u2019s effective. Sky Acres began winning medals with its very first vintage produced this way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courierpostonline.com\/story\/life\/2019\/02\/01\/new-jersey-wineries-win-big-awards-san-francisco-wine-competition-sharrott-bellview-sky-acres\/2742415002\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three NJ wineries win big at San Francisco wine competition Robin Shreeves, Special to the Cherry Hill Courier-PostPublished 12:10 p.m. ET Feb. 1, 2019 |\u00a0Updated 9:56 a.m. ET Feb. 5, 2019 Sky Acres Winery\u2019s Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofermentor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofermentor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofermentor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofermentor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofermentor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gofermentor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofermentor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofermentor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofermentor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofermentor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}